Prerequisites

Prerequisites for Participants

• Basic understanding of Java and Spring Boot

• Familiarity with the Microservices architecture

• Basic knowledge of REST APIs

System Requirements

• Mandatory for all hands-on labs

  • LTS version 17 of the Java SDK, other versions later than 17 might also work but are not tested

  • A Java IDE (like Eclipse, SpringToolSuite, IntelliJ, Visual Studio Code)

  • Postman or any alternative tool like curl or httpie to test requests to the REST Api

• Only required for lab 2 (request rate limiter)

  • Docker or another container runtime plus docker compose

• Only required for lab 4 (TLS/SSL)

  • mkcert to create a local CA and issue certificate to configure TLS/SSL.